Royal Society announces prestigious University Research Fellowships for 2010

24 September 2010

The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science, has announced the appointment of 30 new University Research Fellows (URFs) for 2010. The scientists will take up their new posts at institutions across the UK in October.

The University Research Fellowship scheme aims to provide outstanding scientists, who have the potential to become leaders in their chosen fields, with the opportunity to build an independent research career. The scheme is extremely competitive and URFs are expected to be strong candidates for permanent posts in universities at the end of their fellowships.

The newly appointed URFs are working on a wide variety of projects including new chemical keys to unlock microbial antibiotics; studying clumps of Dark Matter; the development of nitride semiconductors for energy-efficient devices; and the evolutionary biology of retroviruses such as HIV/AIDS.

The full list of appointments is as follows:

Dr Jonathan Baxter, Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of SussexUnderstanding the mechanisms of termination of DNA replication in eukaryotes